, a small business owner who narrowly lost his race for San Diego mayor in 2014 and shared the city council dais with Gómez.
But the race has taken on supersized proportions. And that’s only partially because the district was recently represented by the state’s best known union ally. , as the state’s Republican party has descended into near political irrelevance, labor and business have poured money into Democratic-leaning districts where the choice is not between Republican red and Democratic blue, but moderate periwinkle and progressive navy. Often these are the“We don’t want a seat held by a working peoples’ champion ending up going to someone who is in the pocket of big business.